Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German author whose work is driven by themes of oppression, exile and dictatorship, has been named by the Swedish Academy as the winner of the 2009 Nobel prize for literature
Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel prize for literature, seen at a press conference at the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Weimar, eastern Germany. The Swedish Academy praised Müller, saying her work "depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose."
Photograph: Jens Meyer/Associated Press
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